Metaphors

On the one hand there's something not right in the universe.  If you try to sense it out.. you can feel it.  It's like a dissonance or a separation between things and people.. and it makes its way out into "the real world" by all sorts of things.. but specifically by way of all the -isms.

Sexism..

Racism..

Nationalism..(not the same as patriotism in my view) etc..

I was listening to the (The Reverend) Al Green driving down Sheridan Rd. and I was remembering this article I had been reading in a Religious magazine.  In the article this Religious musician was talking about music and how the music wasn't "Holy" enough he thought.. and that it was offensive to sing about God "as your girlfriend"... he said... like if there was this wall between "normal life".. and the higher "spiritual" world... an uncrossable line.. or a plastic barrier where things like "friendship"... or old fashioned "romantic love" (and sex) should never be allowed to mix with the higher (more important) things.. like doctrine.. and worship.. and church.. and God.. and I wondered if this guy had ever read his own Holy Book.....because there are tons of metaphors about this Universal "other"..- "God"... and us... (mankind).. as 2 Lovers.

The Jewish book (a lot like "the blues") poetically describes this separation we feel in the world.. and all the crap that goes with it as 2 Lovers... split by betrayal... the dissonance and the distance?... because we (generally speaking of humanity as a whole) no longer give a crap about our spiritual lover.. and as well..  no longer give a crap about it's Universal image (mankind... all people).. And As a Result?

Racism.. Sexism.. Nationalism etc.    

The Christian scriptures describe the healed Universe as "the Bride".. and compares it to the consummation of a marriage and a wedding party.. (for all) With Music.. and booze..

Jesus turned water to wine at a wedding

and Sex.

the Jewish wedding always began with the "union" of 2 lovers.  Sex...  and then the week long celebration afterward.

And with all this Party and Sex and Lover talk..  it tends to bring up this whole other thing for me when I listen to "normal" music.

Now when I hear just plain old Love songs...  Elton John.. The Doors.. Or (the Reverend) Al Green I can't hear them without thinking of this bigger thing on a Universal level.    

Love and Sex are Metaphors.

And the sad thing about it to me is that Religion can't get that.  When it comes to dissonance..  spirituality recognizes the separation and seeks to overcome it.

Religion perpetuate's it.